Art Lab at the Mattress Factory Museum 

Scott Andrew performs in ‘HOW TO SPEAK WITH CHILD ABOUT THE COMMUNISM?’, and Art Lab at the Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, on December 1st, 1-4pm.    

American child of the Soviet diaspora–you are the flower of the Cold War. 

Before you disappear into America, we ask ourselves this question: 

HOW TO SPEAK WITH CHILD ABOUT THE COMMUNISM?

Let down by the collapse of the USSR, glad to leave a society they had never felt part of, or following a path of obvious necessity, thousands of Russians have found themselves in, of all places, America. Their children are the historic embodiment of an ideological paradox. 

St Petersburg’s Factory of Found Clothes (Gluklya), Emily Newman, and the MFA candidates of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art invite you to join them at the Mattress Factory’s ArtLab on December 1st for an interactive performance workshop addressing the living legacy of the Cold War in Pittsburgh.